I've always been a big fan, but I didn't realise how big of a Doctor Who nerd I was 'til I instantly knew what stories you were talking about from such vague descriptions of a single scene. Resurrection of the Daleks with Peter Davison. I think there was another one where the slime/blob thing from inside a dalek escaped and strangled some guy. The Ultimate Foe starring Colin Baker, most probably.
I got some hazy memory of a Doctor Who episode where all these hands come out the the ground and pull him into quicksand. Keep in mind that I'm not a psychologist or anything, so this could all be complete bullshit, but I figured these scenes would be popular answers, and it might help people come to better understand why these episodes effected them the way they did. Not something you think about in detail as a kid, but something that seeps into your subconscious as the primal fear lingers whenever you remember the scene. What is on the screen shouldn't be there, and if it can be there when it shouldn't be, what's to stop it from being outside my window, or out in the hall. When, after a long period of time following this rule, the threat breaks it, it creates a very primal feeling that something is wrong. Everything exists within the world of the show with the same art style.
Personally, I think it's related to the expectations you have watching a cartoon. They were all in different mediums than the rest of the show.įor whatever reason, I think it was the fact that the threat was not in the same style of 2d animation that triggered something in my kid brain. There was one thing all of these had in common. The creepy fetus looking thing from the episode where he keeps having nightmares, the little girl playing the violin in the episode where Muriel is kidnapped in the city, King Ramses standing outside waving in the wind, and the harvest moon threatening the family if Houstace can't grow a single crop. There were only a few things that scared me through the shows run. All these years later though, I think I know why. Like many kids I was terrified of the King Ramses episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog.
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